| “ | I don't know what you're talking about. No one hired me to do anything. Henry Cole was a loudmouthed drunken jackass, and I killed him on my own. It was a public service. | „ |
| ~ Kenny refusing to help Elliot Stabler |
Kenneth Michael Kyle is a major antagonist of the Casino arc in the third season of Law & Order: Organized Crime. He was a career criminal who was responsible for the murder of Henry Cole and was affiliated with Vincent Bishop and Dominic Russo.
He is portrayed by Michael Drayer.
Biography[]
After Kenny was identified as a suspect in Henry Cole's murder, Kenny was taken to hospital after being bitten by poisonous rats which killed Cole. Before Sergeant Ayanna Bell and Detective Bobby Reyes could interrogate him at the hospital, he escaped from the hospital and went to receive the money from Vincent Bishop and Dominic Russo, the gangsters who hired him to kill Cole. Kenny then attacked Detective Jamie Whelan after Kenny found out he was a cop and then carjacked a woman before attempting to run over Detective Elliot Stabler.
Kenny then dug up reserve cash off the street before being pointed out by two cops. Kenny then attacked one of the cops and shot the other, killing him. Kenny then approached his seller, Ronald Buatsi, and attacked him before fleeing the scene. Kenny then rang his childhood friend, Dede Hayes, from a house he broke into and she told him that Stabler and Whelan came to see her.
Kenny met with Dede at her home where Russo and another hitman were waiting to kill him. Dede then went into the other room and heard gunshots before Kenny opened the door after shooting Russo and killing the other hitman. Russo managed to escape before being arrested. Kenny then strangled Dede for betraying him and fled the scene. Kenny then stole another car with an infant in the backseat and planned to go to Canada.
Kenny became more delusional and thought that the infant was his younger sister, Emily. When Bell and Reyes found Kenny and the infant, Kenny took Bell and the infant hostage. Bell then managed to convince Kenny to hand her the baby before Reyes tackled him and arrested him. Kenny was taken to the hospital to be treated for the rat bites. Kenny was then transferred into prison, where he assaulted the guard in order to be taken to the infirmary.
Stabler then sat next to Kenny when he woke up and tried to get information out of him on who hired him to kill Henry Cole. Kenny refused to give him any information which caused Reyes to go undercover as a prisoner. Reyes tried to get close to Kenny but Kenny became suspicious of him and attacked him in the cafeteria. In the backyard, Reyes was playing cards with the other prisoners and spotted someone walking towards Kenny to stab him.
Reyes defended Kenny and ended up getting stabbed himself. At the prison, Kenny thanked Reyes for saving his life and Reyes tried to convince Kenny to give himself up and go into witness protection in Florida closer to his family. When Stabler met with Kenny, he told Stabler that Russo ordered him to kill Cole, ultimately resulting in an armed standoff between Russo and the police in which Stabler is forced to kill him.
The team later found out that Bishop was also responsible for Cole's murder, and Stabler and Whelan attempted to arrest him. Bishop then locked himself in the bathroom, where he committed suicide. Kenny then got his end of the deal and thanked Reyes for helping him in prison before being transferred into witness protection.
External links[]
- Kenny Kyle on the Law & Order Wiki
